Box 14.5
Examples of case study analyses
Asmussen and Cresswell (1995) Exploratory qualitative case study of a campus response to a student gunman. Emergent design, context dependent study and inductive data analysis. Use of semi-structured interview, observational data, documents and visual materials.
Lam (2000) single case study of a Chinese immigrant teenager’s written correspondence with a transnational group of peers on the internet , using ethnographic and discourse analytic methods.
MacMillan and McLachlan (1999) interesting combination of the ‘potentially incompatible approaches’ of content analysis and discourse analysis in a single case study on education news in the press using NUD*IST.
Silverman (2000, ch. 11) Case study of decision – making in a child heart clinic. Use of Miles and Huberman (1994) techniques together with ethnographic and grounded theory aspects.
Wulfhorst (2000) study of the effects on a community of living near a hazardous waste management facility using ethnographic, interview and content analysis.